It's also likely that what's regarded as literature suitable for review in mainstream literary press has changed. Hence, if you want to learn about books that you formerly stumbled on frequently, you have to change your diet of literary journalism.
#availabilitybias

Some statistical perspective: 97 % of student protests peaceful. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

As a Missourian, who remembers a Jewish female liberal competing for statewide office and almost winning (sweeping rural areas), I have always thought contemporary politics is just as much a story of the Democrats abandoning “red” states as anything else.

'In 20 years of reporting around the world, what I have seen in the US over the past year can only compare to what I saw in China in the mid-2000s.'

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'What radicalized you?'

this girl:

Very excited for this conversation with the brilliant Ha-Joon Chang at Foyles Bookshop 7pm NEXT WEDNESDAY 22ND!!

I would love to see you there. Tickets still available 👇foyles.co.uk/events/daniel-…

'But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist.'

propublica.org/article/texas-…

The Complete Poems of John Keats

An interesting choice given the China background (deputy chief of mission in Beijing)

I wonder now about people like Hopkins, who suffered from vicious depression for much of his life. Did he suffer from the effects of severe, untreated sleep apnea?
How many such people are out there?

MAC report on Graduate Visa; it's working as intended. Benefits UK economy, taxpayers, and university sector, and should be kept in its current form.

Government response will be an important test of whether it prioritises economy over xenophobia..

theguardian.com/education/arti…

that's like crazy man. blows my mind.

No one is going to make the case for media illiteracy, but I wonder about the optimism gap. Any kind of literacy has intrinsic value. That doesn't mean we can just assume it also has instrumental value in addressing X, Y, or Z. If rarely evaluated, how do we know it is crucial?

Amazing.

Are you one of us..🐔🐔😅

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Bitcoin invention than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

China is very close to the holy grail of zero marginal cost energy, energy as information

This is true, applies to pretty much all the arts, and cannot be explained, I think, solely with reference to the economics of artistic production.

When I was 9, I cut my hand while cutting an orange I was holding, thinking I could cut halfway and then rotate it and cut again.
All nurses now remind me of oranges.